Requiems reviewed again . . .

[realthog]

The customer reviews on Amazon.com are frequently less Times Literary Supplement, more . . . well, lavatory wall, to be honest, but every now and then someone posts a review there that seems pretty professional. A reader called John L Murphy (who I see by clicking the relevant link has reviewed extensively on the Amazon site) has just given the full treatment to Requiems for the Departed (edited by Gerard Brennan and Mike Stone and published by Morrigan, as if you needed telling).

Naturally everyone's agape to find out what he said about my contribution to the anthology, "The Life Business", so here we go:

Grant draws upon his [. . .] teenage stint as a British cadet to integrate disturbing and emotional reveries into his shape-shifting characters. "The Life Business" haunted me more than most previous ones, try as they might to shock or rattle. Grant, as a fantasy master, successfully conjures otherworldly senses into his narrative eerily.

Comments

[realthog.livejournal.com]

To my shame, I've never read any Naipul.

*hangs head in self-loathing*

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

It's been known to happen. Biswas is absolutely worth reading. Though if you want to read the most underappreciated Trinidadian writer of the same period, I recommend Sam Selvon's The Lonely Londoners, truly comic writing about immigrant life in the 1950s.